This is an analysis of the poem The Greatest Thing In North America that begins with:
This is the greatest thing in North America:
Europe is the greatest thing in North America!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacX XXXad XefdeefbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000101010100 1000101010100 100110011111 01010010011101 1010110101100 1 111001001101 100101010100 101010 101101101010 100100100101010 1001001001000111 1011101010101 110101010101 01010010101 101000100100101 101110010101011 1 11101001000111 01010110101 010001010100101 010001010010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines america is repeated).
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